For the latest news from in and around Wigan sign up to the MyWigan newsletter here A 'controlling and abusive' young man blackmailed teenage girls into sending explicit images of themselves, a court has heard.
Harry Bowman is alleged to have threatened to circulate pictures on social media unless the girls continued to send increasingly intimate images.
The 20-year-old, of Whitlow Avenue, Golborne, is charged with 38 offences against nine victims from across the UK. He has pleaded guilty to 26 offences and admits sexually abusing a number of the girls.
But he denies 12 charges, including one count of sexual assault and three counts of rape. A trial at Bolton Crown Court today (June 3) heard Bowman allegedly preyed on the 'vulnerable'
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